for helping to plan the deadly mumbai terror attack in 2008. david coleman scouted out targets in india. more than 160 people were killed, including six americans. he could have been sentenced to life, but prosecutors pleaded for leniency after he agreed to cooperate. and in egypt, marks two years that the revolution that led to the ouster of hoseny mubarak. more opposition rallied are set for later today. senator john kerry was on the hotseat during his confirmation hearing on capitol hill. president obama's pick for secretary of state answered questions for four hours. kerry says that u.s. foreign policy should be defined by helping hand, as well as by military strength. even with iran stopping its

nuclear program, kerry said diplomacy is still an option. >> we will do what we must do to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and i repeat here today, our policy is not containment. it is prevention. >> the senate foreign relations committee is expected to approve kerry's nomination early next week. the full senate could vote a few days after. >> which means he would take over for hillary clinton some time in early february. according to some analysts, there was no grand vision that he laid out during the four-hour hearing yesterday, but certainly with iran, with syria, with north korea, his plate, as they often are for secretaries of state, it will be more than full here. >> he certainly is a seasoned politician. and hillary clinton testified yesterday and gave her stamp of approval. so he will be confirmed. >> oh, yeah. there's no -- he's going to get

it. he had a little schmooze moment yesterday. he said during the hearing yesterday, let me say, i've never seen a better looking group of public officials in my life. he's chairman of that committee. so he knows those folks on both sides of the aisle is respected. so smooth sailing for him. today is the last day on the job for another obama cabinet member. tim geithner, president obama called him one of the best u.s. treasury secretaries ever for restoring the american financial system after the banking meltdown. jack lew has been tapped to replace him. no date yet on his confirmation hearings. with 12 million americans out of work, the number of americans filing for unemployment benefits is at a five-year low. 330,000 people filed last week. that's the lowest number since the beginning of the recession

back in december of 2007. as new jersey's governor gears up for his re-election campaign, he's getting fund-raising help from mark zuckerberg. he's hosting a $3,800 per person event for christie at his california home next month. they worked together before on education issues. zuckerberg, as you may remember, donated $100 million to newark, new jersey schools three years ago. >> be careful, mark, getting involved in politics. different world. a once vacant south florida mansion now has a squatter living in luxury, scot-free. a 23-year-old man from brazil quietly moved into this mansion about a month ago. the $2.5 million property is owned by the bank, but the squatter is using an obscure law to lay his claim. as you can imagine, his neighbors are pretty outraged.

>> nobody is happy. we all spent a lot of money to live on this street. and this guy is trying to pull something. >> all the squatter had to do was file a legal notice, pay taxes and liens and openly live in the house. if the original owner does not object and the bank does not take action, the house is legally his in seven years. don't hate the squatter. >> i suspect something is going to happen now that everyone is reporting on it. >> he's following the law. the korean automaker kia is ready to pay millions to american customers upset about fuel mileage claims. there are reports kia set aside $187 million to compensate people who thought they were buying ultrafuel efficient cars. kia as hyundai admitted overstating fuel economy numbers on more than 1 million cars recently sold in north america.

now to a runway mishap involving two planes in washington's dulles airport. a united flight that just arrived from brussels clipped wings with an empty plane that was parked near the gate. no one was injured. salt lake city's airport was forced to shut down for hours after getting clammed with the most freezing rain in 30 years. a frontier airlines plane slid on a patch of ice after arriving from denver. no one was hurt, but thousands of passengers were stranded. i was just at that airport last week after my little ski trip. so just made it back. here's your friday forecast. dangerous cold from minnesota to maine. a half foot of snow around the great lakes. just a few inches from ohio to indiana and the northeast. freezing rain from nashville to atlanta. rain from l.a. to phoenix. rain and mountain snow in the pacific northwest. >> 40s in the northwest. 2 below zero in fargo.

20s from chicago into the northeast. it was a hollywood ending to a small dog's ordeal. ironically enough in l.a. rescuers set up an elaborate zip line system to get a small dog from an island in l.a.'s macarthur park back to land. >> they don't know how it got there or who owns the dog, because it doesn't have a microchip and the team said they wanted to keep the dog out of the water because it was shivering in the rain. it will be put up for adoption if the owner doesn't come forward. cute little dog. >> lucky pup. >> that's why those microchips are so important. coming up later, the fairy tale that is a scary tale coming up in "insomniac theater." >> and banning welfare recipients from playing the lottery? whose idea is this and why? you're watching "world news now."

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♪ this will get some discussion around the water cooler today. a lawmaker in north carolina has come up with a pretty controversial plan. he wants to ban people on welfare from buying lottery tickets. >> anna laurel from our raleigh station has the story. >> reporter: people all over north carolina buy lottery tickets at places like raleigh's peace street market. some days more than others.

>> it depends on how the finances. sometimes they spend more money. >> reporter: now state lawmakers want to ban retailers from selling tickets to people on welfare or who are in bankruptcy. >> i don't feel comfortable to ask my customers what their financial status is. >> reporter: republican representative paul stan is helping draft the legislation and he says, we're giving them welfare to help them live, but yet by selling them a ticket, we're taking away the money that is there to provide the barest of necessities. some use them at peace street market. no lottery. but it only penalizes vendors if they know the buyer is on

welfare. >> i don't feel comfortable to ask why. it's not by business. >> it isn't anybody's business. let them play the lottery. >> i do understand the principle. the government is supporting your life, and it's like the leader said, it's for the barest essentials. playing the lottery is not a bare essential. >> you're going to pay $1? >> that's assuming they play a dollar. >> let them play the lottery. >> i don't know, i don't know. >> i don't like that. i wonder what everyone thinks about that. >> we'll be back.

♪ ♪ maybelline, why can't you be true ♪ >> sing it, willis, sing it. ♪ oh, maybelline, oh, baby >> he's into it, folks. back in chuck berry's time, catching your girl cheating was a matter of luck or just good intel. >> how times have changed. those flowery little e-mails, that tiny tweet, all lead to one word -- busted. as abc's nick watts tells us, technology has made cheating easier, but it's also the thing that will do you in. >> reporter: technology, it's infidelity's best friend. text, tweet. some say 30% of dating site users are cheaters and facebook gets a bad wrap as marriage

breakers, allowing us to reconnect with that high school sweet heart or meet a total stranger. but there's a flip side, and john, a hard-nosed pi, joined me in a seedy hotel room scene, no doubt the scene of many sorted liaisons to explain what's going on. >> privacy doesn't exist no more. it's over. >> reporter: lipstick on a collar is no longer the cheat's biggest problem. >> nick, technology is going to get you caught at some point. technology is killing the cheater. >> reporter: because an electronic trail is nearly impossible to erase. it was text messages that played a part in the downfall of tiger woods. congressman anthony weiner, a laughing stock after sending photos of his manhood to young

women on twitter. and an e-mail retired general david petraeus. then there were the good old fashion phone bills. >> when we look at phone bills for people cheating, we look at the number of minutes for people talking. most are two, three minutes max. when you see 30, 40 minute cell phone calls and that number keeps popping up, there's a problem. >> reporter: he says if you suspect your man is a cheater, he will catch him. because covering your tracks is now impossible. is this the end of the affair? >> it's making it a lot more difficult than it used to be. cheating used to be fun. i don't think it's much fun. ask the general. >> reporter: i'm nick watts, in los angeles. >> he's a gentleman.

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>> come on, why are you still sitting here. >> coach, we scared. >> they were tough. >> oh, i'm so scared. what game are we playing? >> basketball. >> what color is this game? >> white. >> exactly. you're black, they're white. this ain't hockey. >> 94% of the people want to see it. but often times these sort of types of movies are very, very confusing to folks and it doesn't necessarily work. >> i think "suck" is the word you're looking for. also, the next movie i'm talking about is "hansel and gretel, witch hunters." basically this is a horror, comedy, action, after getting a taste for blood as children, now they've become the ultimate

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this morning on "world news now," firing back. lawmakers take their first aim at assault weapons, demanding a new band. >> who's launching this crackdown and can it really stand a chance against the powerful gun lobby? it's friday, january 25th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." good friday morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> and i'm sunny hostin. the very heated debate over firearms restrictions is our top story this half hour. and it is quite a heated debate. >> it really is. senator feinstein was the first elected leader after newtown

said i'm bringing the ban back and made good on her word. now that the pentagon is lifting the combat ban for women in the armed forces, the questions begin, are women physically strong enough for the military's most challenging assignments? also, there's no relief from the arctic weather system putting millions in the middle of this ongoing deep freeze. flights are canceled due to ice storms and it's too cold in some areas to even go skiing. i've never even heard of that before. that's cold. and later this half hour, the wizards on the web called bad lip reading reinterpret the president's inaugural address. why this is our favorite story of the day. i can't wait to see that. i'm going to watch it for the first time. >> i watched it earlier. it really is funny. the magic of editing and what they do these days.

it's a fun spin on tuesday's pomp and circumstance. it is game on for gun control, the first law to ban assault weapons is now on capitol hill and more are on the way. >> polls show most americans support new control but most lawmakers don't. abc's mark greenblatt has the details. >> reporter: rob, sunny, good morning to both of you. banning assault weapons and implementing other reforms is likely to remain an uphill battle. >> today, my colleagues and i are introducing a bill to prohibit the sale, transfer, manufacture and importation of assault weapons. >> reporter: senator dianne feinstein and backers of a new gun reform bill say they don't want to take guns away from hunters. but their proposal promises to ig nate controversy, banning 158 military style weapons and large magazines that feed more than ten minutes without having to

relot. congresswoman carolyn mccarthy lost her husband in a shooting. >> if you don't have these guns and the large magazines on the shelves, those who have done these horrific killings wouldn't be able to go into a gun store and just buy them. >> reporter: the proposal comes 42 days after the shooting at sandy hook elementary and on the same day the vice president weighed in on a google chat. >> i don't view it as gun control, i view it as gun safety. >> reporter: those backing the bill say they're protecting 2,200 named guns hunters and sportsman can use. the nra is already pushing back, saying senator feinstein has been trying to ban guns from law-abiding citizens for decades. but in a sign of where the nation stands, a new abc news washington post poll shows that 53% of americans support the kinds of gun reforms that

president obama has proposed so far. mark greenblatt, abc news, new york. >> thank you, mark. of course, the president signed several executive orders. that was the first salvo in all of this. now the tougher battle is capitol hill. she says it's a battle worth having. we'll see what happens once it hits capitol hill. >> i think most americans, especially after newtown, they do support some port of gun control, perhaps not an aggressive form of gun control. but something. so why wouldn't it at least be passable? >> if the public is for it, you think capitol hill would respond. from '94 to 2004 in this country, we had an assault weapons ban. and you listen to people who supported it they say it worked and had the effect. you listen to the nra and other folks who say it didn't work. i just want to see one final concrete, nonpartisan study that says did the one we did from '94

to 2004 really work? >> there was studies, though. >> there was, but they always say conflicting things. you don't get a final word, and people twist the numbers to fit their argument. we've done this before. but the one in '94 had a lot of loopholes. maybe some of them will get closed up. >> perhaps this will close that loophole and it will be more successful. but we've got to do something. >> we've done it before. did the last one work? that should pave the way for what we do or don't do this time around. a suspect has been taken into custody in the brutal murder of a philadelphia pediatrician. police have arrested jason smith. she was found in her basement strangled, bound and burned. a former tampa teacher

pleaded guilty to having sex with a 14-year-old is back on probation. a judge released her from probation, now another court just ordered la favre back on probation. she showed up in court with her parents. >> my mom was diagnosed with cancer for the second time, and i spent my year of -- excuse me, my year off probation taking care of her. and i'm so fortunate i was able to take her to the chemo treatments and spend the nights with her when she needed me the most. >> la favre, who is a mother of twins, has four more years to serve. she still has to stay away from schools and the former student she slept with. rhode island is one step closer to joining its new england neighbors by approving gay marriage. lawmakers in rhode island in the statehouse applauded yesterday after passing a bill to approve the marriages by an overwhelming

margin. the next step is more uncertain. right now, no vote there is even scheduled. the leaders of each of the armed services branches have until may 15 to deliver a plan to include women in all combat roles. defense secretary leon panetta made it official recognizing a decade of women in the war zone. all jobs will be open to them unless the military can show why they should not be. but some of those jobs come with some tough physical requirements. >> the combat roles, standards are very high and they're high for a reason. >> women already make up 15% of the 1.5 million active duty military personnel. and 150 of them have died fighting in afghanistan and in iraq. >> look, the bottom line is, there are going to be some women that can't do it, and some that can't. just like there are some men that can't make it into the

special forces and some men can. i just don't understand why a woman would be excluded from combat and then ultimately excluded from rising above this sort of glass ceiling and backing a general and that sort of thing if she can do it. i don't want to go out and do it, but there are women that are perfectly capable of doing it. and the air force has had this rule for quite a long time. you have women winning medals. >> if you're brave enough to bleed and die for this country, more power to you. you have the opportunity to have an opportunity. >> exactly. i suppose implementation is going to be the problem. >> of course. an ice storm that shut down salt lake city is being blamed for creating a dangerous mess on the road. more than 200 traffic accidents were reported across the city's slick highways with drivers slipping and sliding in every direction. forecasters say it was the worst ice storm at the airport since 1983.

the cold freezing new england did not stop some die hard skiers have hitting the slopes. they were talking precautions, though, with extra layers and hand warmers, but some resorts closed, saying it was just too cold to ski. >> i've never heard that. and it could be an icy commute for millions of people in 15 states. >> let's get the latest from accuweather and meteorologist jim dicky. good morning, jim. >> good morning. another brutally cold morning on tap in the northeast and new england. falling to minus 16 in burlington. minus 5 in portland. down to 1 in syracuse. now, we're tracking a weak area of low pressure, bringing an icy mix to cities like raleigh, atlanta, watch out for slick spots. as far as accumulations, 1 to 3 inches. higher along the spine of the appalachian. jimmy kimmel has some act to

follow. after a decade of being bumped because kimmel ran out of time for him, matt damon took over kimmel's show last night. >> he had kimmel tied the up in a chair. hollywood a-listers were all guests. andy garcia took the place of kimmel's usual security guard and the stars kept on coming in. >> you want to be on "jimmy kimmel live?" >> is jimmy in there? >> no, jimmy is not hosting it, i am. >> yeah, of course. >> demi moore also joined in on the fun and jimmy's former girlfriend, sarah silverman. >> it was very funny. i didn't realize that actually happened ten years ago you said,

that matt damon was supposed to be on his show and they ran out of time with matt damon in the green room. how do you not have matt damon on your show? how do you run out of time? >> matt got his revenge. coming up, who is putting words in the president's mouth just for a few cheap laughs? and manti te'o's embarrassing hoax and new details about who was really calling him on the phone. stay tuned for that. you're watching "world news now." [ roasting firewood ]

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another bizarre twist in the manti te'o saga. we're now hearing the voice that he fell in love with. it turns out the woman's voice may have, may have belonged to a man. >> te'o talked for hours to this person and eventually he says bared his soul. abc's matt gutman has more. >> reporter: for the very first time, the voice that charmed and tormented manti te'o. the notre dame football star releasing voice mail he thought was from his girlfriend. we now know she never existed. >> doesn't that sound like a girl? >> it does. >> yeah. >> reporter: but could that sweet voice on the katie show be the voice of this man?

>> what's up, everyone? this is ronaiah. i'm truly blessed and excited to share music with you. >> reporter: ronaiah tuiasosopo's attorney says he was speaking to te'o all along. ronaiah tuiasosopo seen in these christian music videos was a former high school quarterback who created the fictitious lanay kekua. so convincing, te'o would spend up to eight hours baring his soul to her, in over 1,000 phone calls. and tuiasosopo may have been duping people for years. this polynesian beauty queen says this lanay kekua contacted her in 2008. >> what made her seem real is just being consistent at the same time.

>> reporter: she says when they were supposed to meet, someone else showed up. ronaiah tuiasosopo. but what might drive someone to attempt such an elaborate hoax? >> it's a weak ego with a tremendous need to manipulate. >> reporter: the daily news reports tuiasosopo's attorney reports his client was just a person trying to reach out and communicate and have a relationship. matt gutman, abc news, los angeles. >> maybe the issue is not manti's psychology and state of mind, but the hoaxster's state of mind. >> think how elaborate this hoax is. he's calling him, on the phone for eight hours. a thousand phone calls. texting family members and speaking to family members. if that's happening to you, i suspect you would believe it, as well. >> katie couric does believe he was duped after doing that interview. it was a very good interview.

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♪ can't tell whether willis was dancing or having a stroke. a youtube channel that's been around for a year has been getting some big-time hits. >> the channel is called bad lip reading and it spoofs clips from movies, tv shows and songs. and now the presidential inauguration. >> okay, repeat after me. i'm proud to say yo momma took a cosby sweater. >> i'm proud to say yo momma had cosby sweater. >> i'll do the spaceman boogie.

>> i'll do the spaceman boogie. >> i'll brush on my sassy face. >> i'll brush on my sassy face. >> there's two different einsteins. >> there's two different insteins. >> i enjoy makeup. >> i enjoy makeup. >> i enjoy makeup, too. >> so once again, ladies and gentlemen -- >> i buried a possum in this yard to keep it hidden. let's go quietly down this road wearing our backwards pants. that's rough. of course it is. i like opiates. there's a song i got to sing. ♪ touch the sky and colorful bears will take you for the jump. ♪ ♪ touch the sky, sorry i got stuck ♪ >> as you know, beyonce has taken a lot of flak for lipsyncing her performance.

>> so here's the real cut. take a condition. ♪ >> it could have been that. because she didn't sing. >> we got to get over it. >> i'm not over it. is she going to sing for the super bowl? does she sing when we go to concerts. >> because of all this drama at the inauguration, word is she's going to blow the roof off the super bowl. >> she better. but it better be live. >> you have to love a country where in the course of a week beyonce gets more attention than benghazi. whatever. we will have the mix coming up in just a second. hopefully you'll be able to get over your very deep seated anger of miss beyonce knowles.

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♪ if you've been out to eat, most likely you've seen this at one time or another. people taking pictures of their food when the plate comes to the table. now some restaurants in manhattan are saying enough is enough. and they're going to start confronting customers who come in there and take pictures saying it's a distraction. >> let people take pictures of their food. who says a horse isn't smart?

a horse figured out how to up lock his stable door and let other friends go free. check this out. >> mr. ed, doing good work. >> and he just continues. >> we like it. let's continue now with a polka. ♪ ♪ ♪

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this morning on "world news now," frozen flights. snow, ice, and arctic winds frazle airline travelers as pilots face unsafe conditions. >> as a new bitter blast hit a big section of the country and causing major problems. it's friday, january 25th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good friday morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> thank goodness. >> it has been a long week for a lot of reasons. so coming to a cold but merciful end. >> good friday morning. i'm sunny hostin. as the snow and ice freeze the middle of the country, some airports closed before the storm. we'll get the latest from

accuweather. and it has really been remarkable. it's freezing here. >> it is cold. usually it's cold in here because i like the ac cranked up. but it's cold on a whole different level. >> and from one extreme to another, a brush with death for a teenager stuck in raging flood waters. find out where this rescue took place. that looks terrifying. also this morning, the case that captivated the country 12 years ago. congressional intern chandra levy's disappearance and her murder. why her parents suspect the man convicted in the case could be set free. later this half hour, a case of hijacking. during last night's "jimmy kimmel live" what matt damon did to take over the show and who was there to bring on the laughs. stay tuned for that in "the skinny." that was very, very funny. >> working this shift, i've become a big kimmel fan because he's on as we get here to get ready for our show. last night was one of his best ever. it was hysterical. matt damon was great.

this whole cast of characters came out, some a-listers, too. so classic jimmy kimmel last night. we'll get to that in a second. we begin with the relentless cold snap. dangerously low temperatures are delivering a stinging blow to millions of people. >> that's right. as the midwest and northeast remain locked in a deep freeze, a new round of ice and snow is descending on 15 states from ohio to alabama. our coverage begins with abc's brandi hitt. good morning, brandi. >> reporter: good morning, rob and sunny. this blast of cold air is now hitting the south where flights are already being canceled at airports, including nashville international. a deep freeze has now taken over one-third of the u.s. and creating conditions so dangerous, salt lake city's airport had to be shut down because planes were sliding down the icy runway. >> just felt like the plane was going sideways. >> reporter: and it's no different on the roads where there have been several major accidents. oorvegs aaa says the number of

people calling for tow trucks has skyrocketed. >> this is about my 10th call tonight. it's kind of nonstop when it gets cold like. >> reporter: near the great lakes, the snow just keeps on coming. chicago firefighters are literally battling fire in ice. >> slips increase, falls increase, the frostbite increases. your body has to work hard just to keep warm. >> reporter: and in new hampshire, some ski resorts have even closed. >> got 20 layers on. body warmers, and warmers, foot warmers. you can do about an hour and then go in and warm up. >> reporter: the deadly cold blast of air is now moving south to alabama. so ice is now the big concern. and the national weather service says the biggest impact will be icing of trees, power lines and of course, the roads. rob and sunny, back to you. >> too cold to ski? think about that. >> can you imagine? >> are you kidding me? >> thanks for that report, brandi.

>> stay in the lodge with a hot tottie. for millions, that icy storm is going to make a mess out of this morning's commute. >> our coverage continues now with jim dicky over at accuweather. good morning, jim. >> good morning. dealing with snowfall across much of the east. a weak area of low pressure moving out of the great lakes towards the eastern seaboard. it's moving quickly. not much moisture for it to work with. this will be a light snow event in most cases. but also looking for a wintery mix. cities like raleigh, charlotte, back on through nashville, watch out for icy spots on those roads during the evening commute. 1 to 3 inches along with this system. along the spine of the appalachians, some spots topping out at three to six. rob and sunny, back to you. >> thanks, jim. a magnitude 4.4 earthquake rocked northern california, the strongest in a series of jolts. yesterday's quake was centered about 100 miles east of sacramento, near the nevada border. a dozen quakes have rattled the region this week, causing no major damage. on the other side of the globe, a cyclone is dumping

record rainfall on australia. the down tours left this 14-year-old boy clinging to a tree in a rushing creek. but a daring rescue saved his life. thousands are still without power from the storm in eastern australia. forecasters expect more rain from what's left of the cyclone. shifting gears now to foreign news this morning. sobering news in fact. north korea says it has america in its cross hairs. all of this dashing hopes that its new leader would be less provocative. the new threat warns that north korea will soon test a nuclear weapon and a long-range rocket aimed at the u.s. there are signs that a nuclear test is in the works and the missiles can now reach hawaii. but so far it does not appear that north korea can combine them. north korea's threat will soon be john kerry's problem. president obama's nominee for secretary of state testified yesterday at a senate confirmation hearing on capitol hill but fielded more questions about iran's nuclear program,

saying the u.s. must prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. kerry is expected to be easily confirmed for the job, and possibly start early next month. the murder mystery of washington intern chandra levy captivated the nation during the summer of 2001. she had an affair with congressman gary condit and then murdered. a man named ingmar guandique was convicted in a case based largely on circumstantial evidence and witness testimony. but recently, two secret hearings have been held which are raising questions about the conviction. her parents say they just want justice. >> he's just a criminal, so he shouldn't go free. but if he's innocent of murder, he shouldn't be in jail for it. >> guandique's appeal has been put on hold while the new development in the case is addressed. he is due in court next month. >> two points on this.o cf1 one, it's funny. this was the story that riveted

the nation months before 9/11. and people forget that. obviously 9/11 happened and rightfully so, the attention, for years, shifted elsewhere and blew this story out of the headlines. >> everyone was talking about it. i was living in washington, practicing law in washington at that time. and everyone talked about it and whether or not the congressman was involved. i american, it was really -- i think it torpedoed his career. >> he had that famous intense interview with connie chung. it was really big. but back to the case itself. basically like you heard in that piece there, it was not -- there was not a lot of physical evidence in the case. there was a lot of witness testimony and a key point of the case was that this man, armando morales, claimed that guandique told him that he killed levy. but now they're saying that testimony perhaps was not true. and if it's not, the case falls apart. >> i will say, i cover a lot of these cases. and with that case in particular

that had the least amount of circumstantial evidence i've seen in a long time against anyone. >> really? >> yes. >> if it gets overturned, back to square one, which is hell for her parents. a southern california teacher is being held on $12 million bail, awaiting trial for sexual assault. fourth grade teacher robert pemendale pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of molesting 12 students. but prosecutors say there were 20 child victims. police say the first victims came forward in 2002, but the principal failed to tell authorities about any of those claims. also from southern california, the end of the road for a suspected car thief. the guy wound up in an abandoned home, so police then fired some tear gas inside. now watch the attic window. you can see the guy sticking his head out. he said he wanted to surrender and eventually with his pants falling down, he made his way down that ladder. police then put him under arrest. >> oh, my, my.

you might remember the woman who walked straight into a fountain at a mall while she was texting, remember that one? it got so much publicity. surely it couldn't happen again, right? >> you're clearly wrong, sunshine. watch this surveillance video. here she comes down a flight of stairs and there she goes, right into a seemingly frozen canal there in birmingham, england. the woman says she was texting her boyfriend and that the gray ice looked like more pavement. she was pulled out by a passerby and other than an extreme case of embarrassment, she was okay. >> that staircase is too close to that pond. >> that's the lawyer in you talking. she was clumsy and distracted and got what she deserved. what's funny is that case where the woman fell in that mall fountain, she tried to sue the mall because they released the security tape. she tried to sue for like distress. >> because they embarrassed her. >> she embarrassed herself. >> i'm not judging. i have walked into windows and

the like. >> because you are a twitter-holic. >> i am. i text and walk all the time. i do it here in the hallways. >> bumped into willis and almost hurt yourself a couple days ago. coming up next in "the skinny" later, what may be the sexiest movie role in years in hollywood and the actress who now wants it. and the lengths americans will go to for pain relief. it's led to actually a new crackdown on addictive prescription pills. you're watching "world news now." have given way to sleeping. tossing and turning where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta®(eszopiclone) can help you get there. like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities

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♪ it seems as if prescription painkillers are being used more for getting high rather than easing discomfort. >> this stat says it all. the u.s., which is just 4.5% of the world's population, consumes 99% of the world's hydrocodone. that's the opiate in vicodin, which is the nation's most popular painkiller. as abc's david kerley reports, the government is now taking action. >> reporter: it's an epidemic of addiction. pharmacy robbers where crooks are stealing vicodin and other drugs. a symptom of this growing addiction to painkillers. the demand is staggering, with estimates ranging in the millions of americans addicted to vicodin-type drugs.

not just the rich, but housewives like jerry, who was followed by the a&e program "intervention. >> i am a drug addict. now it's close to 20 pills aday. >> reporter: if abused, these pills can be deadly. brandy took too much vicodin and other drugs and died. >> it's too easy to pull something out of somebody's medicine cabinets. i'm outraged there's not more being done about it. >> reporter: in 2011, 131 million prescriptions were written for vicodin, which goes by several brand names. it's a mix of the ingredient in tylenol and hydrocodone. the drug enforcement administration can't win the battle and is pleading to make it harder to get vicodin. >> if it has more restrictive manners tied to it, it would help reduce the abuse potential. >> reporter: they want vicodin to be harder to get a prescription and refill. that's what worries doctors and patients who use it appropriately to control pain.

if it's classified as a more dangerous drug, that could drive up costs for makers and doctors, more paperwork. patients could to make more visits to the doctor foe refills, spending more in co-pays. >> we do have a crisis and something needs to be done. >> reporter: balancing use that helps millions of americans in pain against the abuse that leads to this. a recommendation comes tomorrow. david kerley, abc news, washington. >> some action, yes, would seem necessary on this. plus you hear these stories about these pill mills where people just go in and get whatever they need. doctors are like here you go, here you go. it's a scary epidemic. >> it really is. you see that piece with that woman that take 20 pills a day. i mean, you can't function. >> i don't know how she's alive. that's scary. what that must do to your body over time. hopefully some action comes. >> recommendations are expected today. we'll keep an eye on that. coming up, the back story

after matt damon apparently hijacked the jimmy kimmel show. >> and the sexy movie role that one young hollywood starlet wants to dominate. that's coming up next in "the skinny." s to dominate. that's coming up next in "the skinny."

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skinny in the house! >> oh, man. >> it's friday. >> willis is in heat. okay, let's start off with this. jimmy kimmel had a great show last night. so it's been a running joke on his show where he ends by saying, sorry to matt damon, we ran out of time. which did happen on the show years ago. >> i had no idea. >> so every night he's ended the show with the same thing, sorry, matt damon, we ran out of time. finally matt damon got his revenge and ended up hijacking the show last night and a slew of celebrity guests came out as part of this ongoing gag. take a listen to a little bit from last night. >> welcome to tonight's episode of "jimmy kimmel sucks." i'm your host, matt damon. as an audience, is it weird to see a person with actual talent host this show? siri, who is the best standup comedian in the world?

>> definitely not jimmy kimmel. he is not funny at all. he's terrible. he's human garbage. >> that's a given. do you know why people think jimmy is so funny? >> no, why? >> no, i'm asking you. i was hoping you could tell me. >> sarah silverman, jimmy's ex-girlfriend. it was a really funny show. sheryl crow took over the band leader spot. she was doing her thing. ben affleck showed up, matt damon's besty. robin williams came in at some point. nicole kidman came over and kind of grinded on jimmy in the share like a little striptease. andy garcia was outside. so it was a lot of fun last night. so congrats, a lot of fun. another congratulations. robin roberts returned to the "good morning america" set. now, she was just sort of doing this dry run. there she is on the set. she hopes to be back on air in february.

but she's sort of there just to help her get back into the swing of things. so we hope to see robin return to the set with the cameras rolling hopefully in february. >> just to get her body clock used to it, make sure she's up to it. so good dry run. so looking good and the spiritual high. so good to see that. so stay tuned for "gma" the next few weeks. you're a big fan of "50 shades of grey." >> love all the books. i read all of them. >> which says so much. they ire turning this thing into a movie. guess which hollywood starlet says i want to play the main character? mila kunis wants the role. >> i could see that. >> she says she wants the role. also possibly emma watson is in the running. and the person who is writing the screenplay says it will be raunchy.

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and return to sleep again. ♪ ♪ that's right. >> our beyonce debate continues during the commercial break. >> she lipsynced. >> whatever. >> friday morning, it is definitely time to get the party started. >> it's been a very busy week in the news. here's a look back in our friday rewind. >> i, barack hussein obama do solemnly swear. >> good job, dad. >> i did it. >> i know she had a lot of other people that she could have chosen from, and to be the one

that she chose is one of those amazingly humbling experiences. >> beyonce may have lipsynced the national anthem. >> this has never happened before on an inauguration day where the performance of the national anthem had been pretaped. >> it's worse than that. it may not have been beyonce at all. noted manti te'o prankster ronaiah tuiasosopo. >> this girl, who i committed myself to, died on september 12. now i get a phone call on december 6 saying she's alive and now i'm going to be on national tv two days later. and they asked me the same question. what would you do? >> the fact is, we had four dead americans. was it because of a protest or because some guys out for a walk that decided they were going to kill some americans? what difference at this point does it make? >> being able to do the job should be the standard, not whether you are male or female. i believe as leaders, we took our eye off the ball. we enabled a climate where our troops became vulnerable. >> i feel cold, yeah.

>> very cold. >> it's very easy to completely forget who i am when i'm in the army. everyone is wearing the same uniform. >> i want to thank my parents, jack and jackie harbaugh and go, ravens. >> i don't know if we had a dream this big. we had a few dreams, we had a few fights and arguments. >> which brings us to today, which is of all things opposite day. >> we're on, okay, good. >> read the prompter. >> there are probably endless ways to celebrate this day. sponge bob square pants did a whole episode on it. so whatever way you choose to confuse people, enjoy. >> we're switching roles today. i'm taking the willis position. >> 15 seconds. >> the only difference is i'm awake. >> wrap it up.